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Mayor of Your Domain: Finding Our Way With Geosocial Media

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Tim Nekritz Director of Web Communication SUNY Oswego

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<ul><li>Mobile services tied to your smartphone that allow you to interact with your physical environment and other users. </li></ul><ul><li>The fastest-evolving area of social media.* </li></ul><ul><li>* So fast, the version on the flash drive is rather outdated now </li></ul>

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Location-based services have enormous potential to connect people to places, places to people, and people to people in places. -- Tim Jones, North Carolina State University

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<ul><li>Can be slow, buggy (I’m not at Tractor Supply) </li></ul><ul><li>Spammy sharability backlash </li></ul><ul><li>The points don’t matter </li></ul><ul><li>* In fairness, some of these are common to many geosocial applications </li></ul>

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<ul><li>Low user base </li></ul><ul><li>OK, seriously, this is a pretty good but almost completely unused app </li></ul>

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<ul><li>Celebrating 125th anniversary </li></ul><ul><li>Real-time feed of photos/comments </li></ul><ul><li>Had to heavily promote/do events for signup due to low user base </li></ul><ul><li>We took our cues about the success of the project from the audience reactions during the live slide show. There was lots of laughter and enthusiasm. </li></ul><ul><li>-- Mischelle Diaz, St. Edward’s University </li></ul>

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<ul><li>Integrates sources including Facebook Places, Foursquare, Gowalla </li></ul><ul><li>Share videos, photos, comments </li></ul><ul><li>Rewards/promotions to users </li></ul><ul><li>Greater connectivity </li></ul><ul><li>It also aggregates friends lists from the idea that it’s more important to find and connect with your friends than it is to know what service they use to check in. </li></ul><ul><li>-- Tim Jones, NC State </li></ul>